What to Do to Recover Files from Mac Emptied Trash Bin

Many users regularly empty their trash bins immediately after they delete their files. Some experienced Mac users will use “Command+Delete” option to delete their files straightaway. This action causes the files that users have deleted to be removed from the trash bin. Usually, the outcome is that the files that users emptied from the trash may contain some which they still needed. When someone encounters this situation, is there any way to recover Mac emptied trash bin files by using data recovery software?

Use Mac Data Recovery Software to Recover Emptied Trash on Mac

Luckily, there is an opportunity to get the files back from an emptied Mac trash bin. While other types of data recovery software might only recover emptied Mac trash files, uFlysoft Data Recovery for Mac is famous for its deep scanning function and powerful ability to scan all “deleted files” and then recover all of them on your Mac hard drive. It supports almost all kinds of file formats like JPEG, PNG, GIF, MP4, RMVB, AVI, MOV, MKV, MP3, WMA, DOC, XML, PDF, ZIP, EMAIL, etc.

How Can We Recover Files from Emptied Trash on Mac OS X?

In the Mac system, the trash or recycling bin is a temporary storage area for files that were deleted by users. Also, the trash bin is presented as a special file directory which allows users to recover files they have deleted. In a word, trash can protect files from a real sense of deletion.

Nevertheless, usually users delete their files and then empty their Mac Trash immediately. After this, they find that they accidentally deleted certain files that they need recovered. Is the data recovery possible? Actually, yes! It is possible as long as the new files have not covered the “deleted files.” In reality, “deleted files” are not really erased from Mac OS even if the Mac Trash is emptied. Once you get help from data recovery software like uFlysoft Data Recovery for Mac, you can recover emptied Mac Trash files with ease.

Once data loss happens, immediately stop using your Mac and install this software to recover files from an emptied Mac Trash as soon as possible. The faster you act, the higher the probability to get the deleted files back.

How to Recover Emptied Trash with uFlysoft Data Recovery for Mac

Step 1-Install Software on Your Mac OS X PC

Install software on your Mac OS X PC and run it. You will find that it is easy to handle and the software will offer you user friendly interface that clearly defines what steps you are going to take to recover emptied Mac Trash files.

Step 2-Scan for Emptied Mac Trash Files

After installing the software and entering the interface, you will see your Mac hard drive is shown on the bottom of the software dashboard. To recover the files from the emptied trash bin, users just need to move the mouse to the hard drive, click the button, and then click the next button, “Scan.” The deep scanning function will search through the whole hard drive and collect all of the tiny pieces of the files.

Step 3-Preview and Recovery for the Emptied Trash Files

After scanning is finished, users will see all of the recovered files which had been emptied from the trash. All of these files will be shown on the left side of the screen. Go to the preview, and you can select one file and see if it is the one you want to recover. (Preview function only provided for photo files.)

Once users are ensured that it is the file they want to recover, click the box in front of this file and then click the button “Recovery” beside the button “Scan.” A dialog box will pop up and ask you which folder you want to save the recovered files in.

Important Note: Saving the files to the source drive will overwrite the original data. Our software will remind users NOT to do this action. So, just choose a storage device like an external drive or a USB drive which has enough space for storing the recovered files.

How to Prevent Mac Data Loss Situation

Back Up, Back Up and Back Up

If you don’t want to suffer from data loss problem, build a backup for your important files. It is a good idea for everyone. We will never know when data loss issues will occur, because it happens sometime in everyone’s life. Either a disk cannot be read, hard drive fails, virus infects, trash bin has been emptied, etc. So build a backup in different storage devices like external drives or USB drives. It is the best choice for you and for everyone.

Avoid Human error

Though we don’t want to admit it, some of the data loss problems are caused by human errors which are made by the users. These types of errors occur through processes like accidentally delete files, wrongly formatting a hard drive or storage device, downloading the unknown software on Mac, and so on. We need to pay more attention to when we are using our Mac, and make sure to use our technology with care.